Kyle MacLachlan Biography
Born: February 22, 1959
Born in 1959, Washington native Kyle MacLachlan, among other things, claims to be a descendent of the legendary composer Johann_Sebastian_Bach. However, unlike his very distant relative, MacLachlan made his mark not in music, but in television and film. After performing in a variety of local theater productions throughout his youth -- and acting out scenes from the popular -Hardy Boys fiction series in his even younger years -- MacLachlan made his feature-film debut in director David_Lynch's adaptation Dune in 1984. This would mark the first of many collaborations with Lynch; in 1986, Lynch cast MacLachlan as a young man shocked at what lies under a small town's picture-perfect facade in Blue_Velvet. A year later, MacLachlan starred as an alien FBI agent in The_Hidden, Jack_Sholder's 1987 cult hit.
MacLachlan, however, wouldn't gain true mainstream notoriety until 1989, when David_Lynch called upon the young actor to play another FBI agent; this time, he was Special Agent Dale Cooper, who was sent to a small Washington town to investigate the murder of a young girl in ABC's popular but ultimately short-lived prime-time drama, Twin_Peaks. The role would earn him two Emmy nominations for Lead Actor in a Drama Series and pave the way for more silver-screen roles, some of which include Ray_Manzarek in Oliver_Stone's The_Doors (1991), villain Cliff Vandercave in The_Flintstones (1994), and a falsely accused bank clerk in The_Trial (1993). MacLachlan offered several relatively well-received starring and supporting performances throughout the mid- to late '90s, and did what he could for his role in Paul_Verhoeven's famous 1995 flop, Showgirls.
Luckily, the late '90s to early 2000s were much kinder to MacLachlan. In addition to playing another smooth agent in David_Koepp's The_Trigger_Effect (1996), which some critics claimed was his best performance since Blue_Velvet, the actor also was cast as King Claudius in Michael_Almereyda's adaptation of Shakespeare's +Hamlet. However, it was television that once again made MacLachlan a household name, albeit temporarily. In 2000, he joined the cast of HBO's multiple-award-winning series Sex and the City as Charlotte's (Kristin_Davis) mama's boy husband, Trey. In 2003, MacLachlan starred in the Bravo network's popular documentary series, The Reality of Reality. Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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